With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin

why ?* complex technology project taking longer than originally planned ?* a concession to bush-cheney ?* related to the real-politik of not wanting to get the "Osiraq" treatment from Israel (that was the name of the reactor the Israel b*mbed in Iraq in about 1981).